Miliband, who has grown in popularity since Labour’s 2015 election defeat, called May’s Cabinet “an absolutely ludicrous, incompetent, absurd, make it up as you go along, couldn’t run a piss up in a brewery bunch of jokers”.

What an absolutely ludicrous, incompetent, absurd, make it up as you go along, couldn’t run a piss up in a brewery bunch of jokers there are running the government at the most critical time in a generation for the country.

This could be the moment for opposition and soft Brexit/remain Tories to force a different, less damaging approach - keep the UK in the single market and customs union. But it needs Labour to get its act together. How about it @jeremycorbyn?

May had gone to Brussels yesterday hoping to nail down the final parts of the border deal.

But the agreement was sunk by DUP, the small pro-Brexit Northern Irish party propping up May’s Government, which rejected the idea of the province leaving the EU on different terms to mainland Britain.

In the void left by the major parties on Today, former Foreign Office permanent secretary Lord Ricketts went on the programme to attack the PM.

He said: “It’s pretty extraordinary that this wasn’t all stitched up with the DUP beforehand.

“We’re used to prime ministers going to Brussels and having a row with the EU and coming back without an agreement but to go agree with the EU and then have a row on your own side is inconvenient.”

Corbyn did tweet about Brexit on Monday evening, calling May’s Government “completely ill-equipped to negotiate a successful deal”.

The reason for today’s failure in the Brexit talks is the grubby deal the Tories did with the DUP after the election. Each passing day provides further evidence that @Theresa_May’s Government is completely ill-equipped to negotiate a successful deal for our country.

Scottish Tory leader Ruth Davidson also hit out at the prospect of Britain being “divided by different deals for different home nations”.

“While I recognise the complexity of the current negotiations, no government of the Conservative and Unionist Party should countenance any deal that compromises the political, economic or constitutional integrity of the United Kingdom,” she said.